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Tautology

Word of the day on 27 September 2009.

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a4ist
♫ dunno much abt History. dunno much Biology. dunno much abt Geography. dunno much Tautology. all such wonderful WORDS to me. ♫ #artwiculate
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  • MaryJenkins
    414
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    On sale now, "The Tautology of Redundant Stories-Restated, Remastered, Retold, Paraphrased with Additional Words Added."Again, on sale now..
    @MaryJenkins
  • ntmce
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    A tautology is what it is.
    @ntmce
  • PamMktgNut
    72
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    I do not like green tautology and ham. I do not like it in my blog. I don't like it one bit.That's why I do the tautology twit! #artwiculate
    @PamMktgNut
  • DMBFlashMob
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    Yo, Tautology, I'm really happy for you, and I'mma let you finish, but Redundancy is the greatest word EVA!
    @DMBFlashMob
  • alicejean
    68
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    Down at the Department of Tautology Department, lab partners work in pairs of two.
    @alicejean
  • stevejwales
    60
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    Did you know, "Milky Way Galaxy" is a tautology? Galaxy comes from Greek "kyklos galaktikos", meaning "milky circle". #RandomFact
    @stevejwales
  • toniwilliamsz
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    Gertrude Stein's "A rose is a rose is a rose" is one, only one, not two, not three, only one example of tautology at it's finest...just one.
    @toniwilliamsz
  • jumpmonk
    54
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    Damn. Tripped and spilled my thesaurus. Tautology everywhere.
    @jumpmonk
  • lordshippo
    53
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    "That guy in the wheelchair is so lame" is a tautology because...well, you know.
    @lordshippo
  • just_S
    50
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    The beauty of tautology is simplicity, like a wet rain, burning fire, or frozen ice it feels good or it doesn't. :)
    @just_S
  • JaniceHidey
    48
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    We love to repeat ourselves: personal friend, same exact thing, ATM machine. Let's clean up our redundant tautology. @artwiculate
    @JaniceHidey
  • aardrian
    47
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    @artwiculate Safety-pinned skinny jeans? 80's fashion tautology !
    @aardrian
  • yopopodawn
    44
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    Earwig Jim stuck two antennae up at the dictionary. He'd had enough, was replete, felt voluminous, seemed surfeit, full even, of tautology.
    @yopopodawn
  • DrMobs
    44
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    Hey, @artwiculate! Our news service does real good tautology! RT @abcnews: Martian water found on Mars http://bit.ly/2ZMJEh
    @DrMobs
  • ChrisGrossmann
    44
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    “To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to add the sheep was tautology.” -Mark Twain
    @ChrisGrossmann
  • yuuyurin
    41
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    When I can't sleep, I count sheep. But it's a tautology, isn't it?
    @yuuyurin
  • Bohemiangirl
    41
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    @artwiculate Defining tautology, would be one
    @Bohemiangirl
  • rrubin
    41
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    "Tautology" either is or is not the @artwiculate word of the day.
    @rrubin
  • patrickyaeger
    40
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    Since the word sahara means desert in Arabic, to say 'The Sahara Desert' is a tautology or plaonasm.
    @patrickyaeger
  • afatato
    40
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    So would "manipulative cult" be considered a scien- tautology?
    @afatato
  • stevejwales
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    @Artwiculate: I say again, tautology is the redundant repetition or restating of things that one has already said, or repeating repetitively
    @stevejwales
  • stevejwales
    40
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    @artwiculate: Random thought: Is the study of tautologies called tautology-ology, and if so is the name itself a tautology?
    @stevejwales
  • Doctor_Andy
    40
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    A former supervisor, who was a study in advanced tautology, used to begin declarative statements, "For your FYI." #artwiculate
    @Doctor_Andy
  • zzyss
    40
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    I adjure the cacaphony of #artwiculate mavens, in my mellifluous voice, to consider my previous assertion that sempiturnal is a tautology
    @zzyss
  • tjmahr
    39
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    a tautology is always true, while a contradiction is always false. what's better then: a redundant truth or a trivial falsity? #artwiculate
    @tjmahr
  • harrymaclean
    39
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    Tautology Classic. Thinking of self-referencing acronyms. Technical term: RAS Syndrome. What does RAS stand for? Redundant Acronym Syndrome.
    @harrymaclean
  • RickyBeats
    39
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    I despise tuatology which is redundancy in words & not to be redundant but I don't like tautology being redundantly used over & over & over.
    @RickyBeats
  • tWordBird
    39
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    His tutelage of Twitter was totally tiresome & futile, due to his continual repetitive verbose verbiage of sundry & superfluous tautology.
    @tWordBird
  • levdir
    39
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    I was asked to write a definition of tautology, but all I could come up with was "It is what it is."
    @levdir
  • kevinahern
    39
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    Oh no, I'm in my Tautology 201 class & suddenly I realize it's my Tautology 101 class all over again & I already sold my notes. #artwiculate
    @kevinahern
  • darthwalrus
    38
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    @artwiculate Isn't your whole site based around the idea of tautology?
    @darthwalrus
  • stormj
    38
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    To an adult, the fact that 2+2=4 is a mere tautology , to the toddler figuring it out was worthy of a "eureka"-if he only knew the word.
    @stormj
  • jennielees
    37
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    The vocab game @artwiculate has potential, but half the tweets listed are using 'tautology' incorrectly. And the name itself... ouch.
    @jennielees
  • readsmallprint
    36
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    To be a successful politician one must place one's tautology above one's ideology. Why say it like it is, when you can reinvent the wheel?
    @readsmallprint
  • beagley
    35
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    There comes a point when exuberant metaphor and description degrades into derivative tautology.
    @beagley
  • neecha2k9
    35
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    The tautology of politicians trumps the temerity of truth.
    @neecha2k9
  • RickyBeats
    35
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    If you don't know what tautology means, it means redundant, repetitive, repeated. Did I say redundant, because thats what tautology means.
    @RickyBeats
  • browningshane
    34
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    A tautology is saying the same thing twice in different words, like a tautology.
    @browningshane
  • katrinamhall
    34
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    dislikes the tautology of freshman who ask questions in class.
    @katrinamhall
  • OddlyStarry
    34
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    A tautology is different in linguistics and logic! One is repetitively redundant, the other is true always and forever. #artwiculate
    @OddlyStarry
  • kevinahern
    34
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    WTF????!!! Tautology?!?!?!?! STFU!!!!!! OMG!!!!! I mean, REALLY??!!! TAUTOLOGY?????! C'mon, enough said! Move on! Get a life!!! #artwiculate
    @kevinahern
  • ZimmerJohn
    33
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    I've been going round in circles trying to find a clever way to use or employ or utilize or apply or implement tautology in my vocabulary.
    @ZimmerJohn
  • KevSaund
    30
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    The thing about tautology is that it always means what it means.
    @KevSaund
  • beveledaqua
    30
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    No, tautology is not the study of tightly stretched vines in the woods. @artwiculate
    @beveledaqua
  • ohyesidid
    30
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    My favorite tautology: Police Cops. Can you guess where it's from? ;P
    @ohyesidid
  • JMNelis
    30
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    Tautology: Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
    @JMNelis
  • DaveCurry
    30
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    SNL artwiculated tautology by having Megan Fox portray either an overtly salacious character or not an overtly salacious character. Acting!
    @DaveCurry
  • philip_reaves
    30
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    I love the tautology of people when they're trying to descibe to me what they need. To be so wordy, yet so vague is almost a talent.
    @philip_reaves
  • Awaris
    30
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    Ha! I love tautology. Helps me win fights with my brother. (i.e. I'm the best, so I get to say who's the best. And I say I'm the best.)
    @Awaris

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